Feb. 11, 2011
Chicago, Ill. -
Complete BTN Baseball Schedule in PDF Format
Complete BTN Softball Schedule in PDF Format
The Big Ten Network has released its 2011 baseball and softball schedules and Illinois will appear at least three times in baseball and four times in softball live on the linear network with an additional dozen combined appearances in both expected on bigtennetwork.com. Those streamed events also could be shown tape delayed on the linear network.
The BTN will make at least two appearances at Illinois Field to cover Dan Hartleb's Illini baseball team - Saturday, April 9, vs. Iowa and Friday, April 22, vs. Michigan State. The finale of the series at Purdue on May 15 also is on the docket.
Terri Sullivan's softball squad, who opens the season ranked No. 24 nationally, will make its 2011 BTN debut on Sunday, April 10, at Ohio State. The network will also show a mid-week doubleheader against Indiana on April 27 and game one of the last series of the season at Minnesota on Friday, May 13.
The network is also close to finalizing its streamed schedule, which is expected to be released next week. Wild card events will be determined at a later date.
The complete BTN baseball schedule can be found here. The complete BTN softball schedule can be found here.